Swallows on the Wing O'er Garden Springs of Delight: A Medly of Prose and Verse

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Michael Doolady, 1866 - 81 pagina's
 

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Pagina 50 - Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower But 'twas the first to fade away ; I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die.
Pagina 21 - How fine has the day been, how bright was the sun, How lovely and joyful the course that he run, Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun, And there followed some droppings of rain! But now the fair...
Pagina 35 - Star light, star bright, First star I seen tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might Have the wish I wish tonight.
Pagina 21 - A SUMMER EVENING. How fine has the day been, how bright was the sun, How lovely and joyful the course that he run, Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun, And there...
Pagina 21 - Just such is the Christian ; his course he begins, Like the sun in a mist, when he mourns for his sins, And melts into tears; then he breaks out and shines, And travels his heavenly way : But when he comes nearer to finish his race, Like a fine setting sun, he looks richer in grace, And gives a sure hope, at the end of his days, Of rising in brighter array.
Pagina 16 - The six days' world-transposing in an hour, A kind of tune, which all things hear and fear ; Softness, and peace, and joy, and love, and bliss, Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest, The milky way, the bird of Paradise, Church-bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood, The land of spices, something understood.
Pagina 46 - Cast thy bread upon the waters and it shall return to thee after many days.
Pagina 34 - ... we pray ; New perils past, new sins forgiven, New thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven. 4 If, on our daily course, our mind Be set to hallow all we find, New treasures still, of countless price, God will provide for sacrifice. 5 Old friends, old scenes, will lovelier be, As more of heaven in each we see ; Some softening gleams of love and prayer Shall dawn on every cross and care.
Pagina 22 - Mansfield Hotel at 7 o'clock, PM, which is kept by a Company, the presiding genius of which is a counselor-at-law, one Bingham, and Bowman, his attorney, in fact. All professions, therefore, may find themselves at home here, where one is well kept, and boarded very cheap ; for people have a conscience in the town of Stowe...
Pagina 25 - The society of the parlors was more like that of the home circle, and they met together here as friends, to have a good time together. Many of the guests had been there since June ; some from Boston spend the whole summer, and gather around themselves all their relatives, who are drawn hither by the amenities of -this newly discovered Utopia.

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